Pharmacy

Education programs are provided to a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students from Victoria, other states and territories of Australia and international universities.

The training program content will vary depending upon the nature of the placement but may include rotations through the clinical pharmacy services within the pharmacy department, including:

outpatients/dispensary

clinical ward services

manufacturing: aseptic and non-aseptic

quality use of medicines

drug information centre

hospital outreach medication review service

clinical drug trials

Undergraduate pharmacy students

Education programs are provided to undergraduate pharmacy students from a range of Australian universities.

Professional Experience Placement (PEP) program

As part of Monash University's undergraduate pharmacy degree, third and fourth year pharmacy students are required to undertake a series of community and hospital pharmacy placements, known as the professional experience placement (PEP) program.

Students completing their placement at Monash Health are given the opportunity to develop skills in the areas of clinical pharmacy, problem solving, medication history taking, patient counselling and therapeutic planning.

Hospital 1 students are rotated through specialty areas within the pharmacy department (drug information, outpatients/dispensary, inpatient pharmacy and aseptic manufacturing) in addition to spending time working with clinical pharmacists on the wards.

Hospital 2 students get the opportunity to work with specialised pharmacists in the areas of clinical trials, drug usage and evaluation and adverse drug reporting, as well as work on the wards.